Quotes from Harrison Owen

Peace of the sort that brings wholeness, harmony, and health to our lives only happens when chaos, confusion, and conflict are included and transcended.

As people think and work together, a fabric of shared meaning comes into being.

Open some space, and Spirit will certainly show up. Allow the magic of self-organization to work for you, and the complex adaptive system that we are will find its own power.

most of the ways in which we know how to engineer change…are not effective. Given a…logical problem to solve, we are superb… But…the fundamental premises are different, which means that our logic is without power.

don't we all know that good work is rarely performed by people who don't care to do it?

Up until now, some of us actually thought that we created and organized the systems in which we work. But should it turn out that natural system…are truly self-organizing, much of that effort was wasted.

It is the dance between chaos and order that is truly creative.

It is only in the dance between chaos and order that life progresses.

Leadership … is a collective and constantly redistributed function, and not the private property of the few or The One.

Forget about trusting the process; trust the people.

It would seem that most everything we do in the name of organizational effectiveness is antithetical to what Life requires

The circle is the fundamental geometry of open human communication.